Number Ten Is The Brilliantly Funny Novel By Sue Townsend, Author Of The Adrian Mole Series. Behind The Doors Of The Most Famous Address In The Country, All Is Not Well. Edward Clare Was Voted Into Number Ten After A Landslide Election Victory. But A Few Years Later And It Is All Going Wrong. The Love Of The People Is Gone. The Nation Is Turning Against Him. Panicking, Pri Number Ten Is The Brilliantly Funny Novel By Sue Townsend, Author Of The Adrian Mole Series. Behind The Doors Of The Most Famous Address In The Country, All Is Not Well. Edward Clare Was Voted Into Number Ten After A Landslide Election Victory. But A Few Years Later And It Is All Going Wrong. The Love Of The People Is Gone. The Nation Is Turning Against Him. Panicking, Prime Minister Clare Enlists The Help Of Jack Sprat, The Policeman On The Door Of No 10, And Sets Out To Discover What The Country Really Thinks Of Him. In Disguise, They Venture Into The Great Unknown: The Mean Streets Of Great Britain. And For The First Time In Years, The Prime Minister Experiences Everything Life In This Country Has To Offer - An English Cream Tea, The Kindness Of Strangers, Waiting For Trains That Never Come And Treatment In A Hospital - And At Last He Remembers Some Of Things He Once Really Cared About . . . Bestselling Author Sue Townsend Has Been Britains Favourite Comic Writer For Over Three Decades. Wickedly Entertaining. There Is A Gem On Nearly Every Page. Nothing Escapes Townsends Withering Pen. Satirical, Witty, Observant ... A Clever Book Observer Poignant, Hilarious, Heart-rending, Devastating New Statesman Hilarious. Sue Townsends Laughter Is Infectious John Mortimer, Sunday Telegraph Books Of The Year Sue Townsend Is Britains Favourite Comic Author. Her Hugely Successful Novels Include Eight Adrian Mole Books, The Public Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen And I, Queen Camilla And The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year, All Of Which Are Highly Acclaimed Bestsellers. She Has Also Written Numerous Well-received Plays. She Lives In Leicester, Where She Was Born And Grew Up.